Widow’s plea after husband dies of brain cancer missed by Bowral Hospital

Mike Atwell knew something was wrong, after suffering weeks of debilitating headaches, trouble speaking and a loss of balance earlier this year.

But despite three visits to the emergency department at Bowral Hospital in the NSW Southern Highlands within three weeks, he was sent home with painkillers and told to follow-up with his GP.

His determined family would later organise one last visit — this time to a metropolitan hospital in Sydney — where he was diagnosed with a form of brain cancer.

The 73-year-old died within five weeks on June 3.

It is the third such serious…